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Not to pick on your response, but every time I see a thread about not understanding math, I think *my people!!!*. I come to these threads hoping to find answers
by rzz3 5y ago
Not to pick on your response, but every time I see a thread about not understanding math, I think *my people!!!*. I come to these threads hoping to find answers, and all I see are “read this calculus textbook” or “3blue1brown”! I watched this whole linear algebra series about 7 times and I just don’t get it. There’s something about the way people explain math that just isn’t intuitive to me, like it’s too disconnected from reality or something. I wonder if I’m not the only one…
- eternityforest 5y agoI really really think math is in fact harder than other things people do, and math people are using weird definitions of words to hide it. Like, when they say something is easy, they might mean "It's easy if you know all this foundational stuff that you could learn in six months". Everything else technical has shortcuts. Nobody knows how WiFi works, they use a module. If they do, they're probably a specialist. But math has almost no shortcuts almost by definition. If it did we wouldn't call it math we'd call it using a math library. It's the same shock I have practicing music, or why I can't drive, or why it takes me 2 whole minutes to line up a jig to cut a 2x4. What programmers do is on the screen more than in the head. There's no "practice this kick 10000 times". When you see drawPixel(x,y, hexcolor)... that's... all there is to know about that function besides how long it takes. Things that DO require skills that have to be learned, rather than just facts you have to be familiar with, seem shockingly difficult compared to anything in a JS app.